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Lodge, David (John)

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English novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, screenwriter, and critic. Much of his fiction concerns the role of Catholicism in mid-20th-century England, exploring the situation both through broad comedy and parody, as in The British Museum is Falling Down (1967), and realistically, as in How Far Can You Go? (1980; Whitbread Book of the Year Award). His more recent works include Consciousness and the Novel (2002), a collection of essays that explore the representation of human consciousness in fiction. His other works include Changing Places (1975; winner of the Hawthornden Prize) and its sequel Small World (1984), both satirical ‘campus’ novels, Nice Work (1988), Paradise News (1991), Therapy (1995), Home Truths (1999; originally written as a play published in 1998), Thinks (2001), Author, Author: A Novel (2004), which focuses on periods in the life of the writer Henry James , and a biographical novel about H G Wells , A Man of Parts (2011). His plays include The Writing Game…
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English novelist, playwright and critic. His best-known novels are set in academic circles, such as Changing Places (1975). Other works include Thinks (2001) and Author, Author: A Novel (2004). Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. …
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Full text Article THE WEATHER

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. [Letter, 1796] He who doesn’t notice whether it is winter or summer is happy. I think that if I were in Moscow, I wouldn’t notice what the weather was like. CHEKHOV, Anton The Three Sisters (1901). Snowy, Flowy, …
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Full text Article LITERATURE

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All the arts – music and painting and the written word – are by their very nature elitist, which is why they have such power to enrich our lives. BAINBRIDGE, Beryl The Guardian , 2003. Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature. BROOKNER, Anita A Start in Life (1981). …
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Full text Article David Lodge 1935– 

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Full text Article Rummidge

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An alteration of BRUMMAGEM . A fictionalized version of BIRMINGHAM , and particularly of its university, which appears in the comic novels – notably Changing Places (1975) and its sequel Small World (1984) – of David Lodge (b.1935), former (now Emeritus) Professor of Modern English Literature at…
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Full text Article How Far Can You Go?

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Full text Article Lodge, David

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(David John Lodge), 1935–, English novelist and critic, b. London, grad. University College, London (B.A. 1955, M.A. 1959) and the Univ. of Birmingham (Ph.D., 1967). Lodge taught at the Univ. of Birmingham (1960–87), during which time he wrote studies of Graham Greene (1966) and Evelyn Waugh (1971). …
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Full text Article Lodge, David John

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1935- ♦ English novelist and literary critic Born in Dulwich, Greater London, he was educated at University College London, and at the University of Birmingham, where he was professor of modern English literature (1976-87, now emeritus). His critical and theoretical writing (most of which is…
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Full text Article LODGE, Prof David John

From Debrett's People of Today 2017
s of William Frederick Lodge, and Rosalie Marie, née Murphy b. 28 January 1935 St Joseph's Acad Blackheath, UCL (BA, MA, John Oliver Hobbes scholar, John Morley medal, Quain Essay prize), Univ of Birmingham (PhD) 15 May 1959, Mary Frances, da of Francis Jacob (d 1969); 1 da (Julia Mary b 1960), 2 s…
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Full text Article David John Lodge (1935– )

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